Prion diseases

被引:19
作者
Collinge, John [1 ]
Palmer, Mark S. [1 ]
机构
[1] St Marys Hosp, Med Sch, Dept Biochem & Mol Genet, London W2 1PG, England
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D O I
10.1016/S0959-437X(05)80156-X
中图分类号
Q2 [细胞生物学];
学科分类号
071009 ; 090102 ;
摘要
There have been remarkably rapid advances in the understanding of prion diseases over the past year. The controversial notion that the transmissible agent may be an abnormal isoform of a host-encoded protein, the prion protein, is now gaining wide acceptance. The conundrum of how a disease can both be inherited as an autosomal dominant condition and also be experimentally transmissible by inoculation is beginning to make sense.
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页码:448 / 454
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